ABOUT THE GREAT FILTER

 There is a cosmological principle known as the Fermi paradox. The paradox stipulates that considering the rapid development of civilization on earth, and given the billions of stars in our galaxy and the overwhelming number of planets with the capacity to develop intelligent life, Where is everybody? 

The probability of other intelligent beings inhabiting our galaxy is almost certain in theory, and yet our cosmic search for aliens continues to come up empty.  One unsettling solution to the Fermi paradox is the theory of 

The Great Filter.

Maybe the reason we can't find any aliens is that intelligent beings are doomed to destroy themselves in an endless battle for resources. Civilizations will inevitably develop weapons powerful enough to destroy themselves or their environment long before they develop interstellar travel.

Famed astronomer Carl Sagan speculated that “if a civilization does not learn to control its destructive tendencies, it will likely perish within a century of developing advanced technology.” For we must love one another or we die.

The Great Filter is a multi-media webcomic that explores the prospect of extraterrestrial intelligence somewhere else in the universe. On the planet Celph, Enriko is born a modest citizen of Doria, with two strange defects: a fear of death and the ability to speak to the recently dead. We follow his journey with a keen eye and hopefully in the process we will learn something of this new alien species and what separates them from us. Both good and bad.